This is my first post here. I have been struggling to get to the bottom of a lack of rear wheel assist on my 2002 TTQ 225HP. Here are the facts:
1) When I am driving the car, there is no discernible assistance from the rear wheels. On hot, dry pavement, the front wheels will bark and hop under full throttle in first and second gear. On snow, it's a catastrophe--barely any acceleration with the traction control light flashing away.
2) The car spins the rear wheels when all four wheels are off the ground and the car is run in gear.
3) I do not have a VAGCOM, and would like to avoid spending $350US just to fix this problem because the problem itself is probably not going to be cheap to fix.
4) Precharge pump is new. Replacing the pump DID make a difference. Before I replaced the pump, the rear wheels would not spin under their own power at all. Now the rear wheels spin, but they aren't helping to prevent or reduce front wheel slip under load.
5) While I was replacing the pump, I found the broken earth wire and repaired it by building something three times heavier than what was there.
Has anybody experienced massive front wheel slip with a good, functioning precharge pump? The pump seems, in most cases, to be the first suspect.
1) When I am driving the car, there is no discernible assistance from the rear wheels. On hot, dry pavement, the front wheels will bark and hop under full throttle in first and second gear. On snow, it's a catastrophe--barely any acceleration with the traction control light flashing away.
2) The car spins the rear wheels when all four wheels are off the ground and the car is run in gear.
3) I do not have a VAGCOM, and would like to avoid spending $350US just to fix this problem because the problem itself is probably not going to be cheap to fix.
4) Precharge pump is new. Replacing the pump DID make a difference. Before I replaced the pump, the rear wheels would not spin under their own power at all. Now the rear wheels spin, but they aren't helping to prevent or reduce front wheel slip under load.
5) While I was replacing the pump, I found the broken earth wire and repaired it by building something three times heavier than what was there.
Has anybody experienced massive front wheel slip with a good, functioning precharge pump? The pump seems, in most cases, to be the first suspect.
